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• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Political communication as a site of academic study
• The emergence and consolidation of political communication as a field of academic study
• Politics as a subject of study
• Media technology as a site of study
• Media or politics: Which came first?
• Mass communication as a site of study
• The temporal, social and cultural as a site of study: Implicit political communication?
• Summary
• 1 What is Political about Political Communication?
• Introduction
• Contemporary political communication
• What is political?
• What is communication?
• What is the site in which politics is communicated?
• Towards a politics of political communication
• Summary
• 2 Why does Political Communication Matter?
• Introduction
• Political literacy, political knowledge
• Language and literacy
• What is the political and ideological context for our literacy?
• Codes and messages
• Reading mediated political discourse
• What is not being communicated?
• Summary
• 3 Who are the Audience(s)?
• Introduction
• What is an audience?
• Why do audiences matter?
• The general public and public opinion
• Advertisers and the construction of audiences
• Advertising constructing audiences as consumers?
• Elites as audiences
• Who is not an audience?
• Summary
• 4 How do Governments and Politicians Communicate?
• Introduction
• A brief history of ‘spin’
• Propaganda
• Contemporary marketing and advertising by politicians
• Communicating election campaigns
• What is and is not being communicated?
• Summary
• 5 How is News Communicated Politically?
• Introduction
• What is news?
• Relations between news organizations and the state
• The changing nature of news and journalism: The technological context
• The gendering of news
• The discursive context
• Summary
• 6 How is Politics Communicated beyond the News?
• Introduction
• Popular culture and the culture industry
• Elite politicians, popular and celebrity culture
• Reality TV and celebrity culture
• The political representation of gender in popular and ­celebrity culture
• Summary
• 7 How is Politics Communicated beyond the Nation State?
• Introduction
• War
• War reporting
• Popular culture and war
• War as a media non-event?
• Terrorism and media
• Summary
• 8 How do Citizens Communicate Politically?
• Introduction
• Civic participation
• Citizens and social media
• Political identity
• Resistance as a form of political communication
• Summary
• Conclusion: Politics and Power
• The three faces of power
• Structures and agents
• Power and the constitution of the subject
• The subject and gender
• Technologies of regulation in political communication
• Bibliography
• Index